“One of the things that makes movie studios jittery is the idea
of their precious digital films being pirated. The well-publicized
release of DeCSS didn’t do much to reassure nervous industry
execs.”
“The whole thing is absurd. Trying to prevent bits from
being copied is sort of absurd,” said IBM’s Kevin
McCurley.“
“Instead, he suggested, the music industry should consider
abandoning copy protection and instead concentrate on how to create
easy-to-use digital libraries for music.”